skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most popular tools I've seen at Startup Weekend would have to be LaunchRock. Zapier sounds like a great addition! I'll need to brainstorm some ideas. We had several teams use Divshot to quickly prototype web apps at Startup Weekend in Lincoln, NE. Divshot was also used to build Qup.tv in 48 hours.
Freetype2 (the renderer used in linux) is of course capable of doing both (grid-fitting or not), and desktop environments like gnome make it very easy to choose whichever method you prefer.

[There are even intermediate settings...]
http://developer.rovicorp.com/docs does some of this stuff, albeit it's a bit cumbersome. I'm still using them since they have some metadata available which is unique.

(these are the guys behind http://www.allmusic.com)
There was a post on Coding Horror (Jeff Atwood's blog) about this in 2007. I'm not meaning to be snarky, but certainly for a certain class of people, this has been well-known for a while.

Edit: sorry, forgot the link, it's here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/font-rendering-resp...
I'm on Lion too. It works for me.
Look here - http://osxdaily.com/2012/06/09/mac-screen-blurry-optimize-tr...

I steal it from there.
Requires proving the claim of nonexistence.
Who owns the IP that may come out of this?
With regards to the comments here:

I don't think pNaCl could ever happen how do you get an IR general but with enough detail to capture enough information to be able to optimize effectively and without pulling in half of llvm codegen?

The issue isn't a web 'bytecode' the issue is a standardized compiler bytecode.

Also haberman are you still working on the gazelle parser?
What about the fishing competitions in WoW? You could say that it's not a solid bet, but I know more than one person that kept their account activated for the sole purpose of logging in on Sunday mornings to fish and nothing more. Same with those who would only raid 2-3 evenings a week, get their gear or a boss/dungeon achievement and log.

I believe there are ways to cater to casuals while still keeping the achievements unique.
Because I thought for sure it would be 605, here is 605:
http://xkcd.com/605/

As acknowledged, this is not a serious answer. Because following Moore's law for 200 more years (the time at which we get a simulated human brain) allows 8e40 times the computing power we currently have.
Any plans on adding support for Outlook conversations? I have had great technical conversations via Outlook that I would have loved to share with the team, but ended up having to forward the convo.
No discussion of font rendering in Linux is complete without a hat tip to infinality, which aims to provide much better font rendering. infinality started out as a patch to freetype, and was recently merged in, which is quite exciting.
It is just Settings > Bluetooth on WP7. Pretty easy. I do wish they would allow you to pin settings to the start screen. That would be nice for WI-FI. But, to your point, Android and iPhone seem unintuitive to me because I don't use them on a daily basis.
It pains me to watch all these awesome features rolling out but knowing that the pricing is keeping me from signing up. The app I'm building will allow sellers to charge ~$1 for items, and with the 30¢ + 2.9%, Stripe's fees take up a third of the revenue. Hard to convince sellers to use a platform that takes that much.

AWS and PayPal seem like the only viable options for us, at this point, but I anxiously await the day that Stripe rolls out a micropayment pricing tier.
Glad you're excited! I moved to Seattle almost exactly 3 years ago to work at Microsoft and was always mystified why I had to go somewhere else (DC, Portland, Scottsdale, the list goes on) to attend an awesome JS conference. That sense of "why not us?" was the genesis for this event.
Bayes Theorem. Probability Theory. On The Damn Radio
Fresh Air / NPR interview with Nate Silver of 538 Blog fame. I have not heard Bayes mentioned on the radio. Ever! Kudos to Silver for explaining some complex concepts to the lay masses.
55K emails in a thread? WTF? =)
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There's nothing to "support" yet with PNaCl. It's still at the "we have no idea how to make this work" stage, last I checked.

And if it _could_ be gotten to work, you still haven't addressed why Mozilla should be willing to get on the Pepper "upgrade to keep up with all this unspecified stuff we're changing" treadmill.

It's not just scars from Flash and ActiveX; it's a distinct reluctance to bet everything on a technology you have 0 control over, and which one of your direct competitors controls completely. Now why would Mozilla be hesitant to do that? You tell me.
I'm also interested by the answer of this question !
Best find yet while looking through Mozilla's web documentation is Playdoh, Mozilla's Web application base template:
http://playdoh.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
https://github.com/mozilla/playdoh

This should be in every Django book!
I'm guessing that the restriction on location is mainly related to keeping the travel costs down. I
'm mainly just curious as to why the US Citizenship is a hard requirement, particularly if I'm accepted to work on my own stuff.
Absolutely not a requirement. Awesome Non US citizens should apply.
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Why not collaborate?
Don't worry, someone else probably accidentally upvoted me so it all works out in the end. I have the same problem on my tablet, HN is not that friendly as a mobile site.
Actually there are cannot be variables determining some phenomena http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bell_theorem
> At hi-res, they'll likely not look as correct as the Mac rendering.

The higher res you go, the less differences there'll be between the two rendering methods. Fitting to the pixel-grid doesn't alter very much if the pixel grid is small enough.

Consider: Rendering a small font size at high-res is equivalent to rendering a larger font size at lower-res. If you look at the larger fonts on TFA's screenshot, e.g. "Node JS Design Patterns 101", there's proportionally much less difference (between Ubuntu and OSX) than at small sizes.
Eh, my thought is that 'vi'/'vim -C' should remain conservative but that just 'vim' by itself should turn on the sensible stuff. Certainly 'hidden', if not the more cosmetic searching stuff ;).

Some of the defaults are just plain harmful to people trying to get started. 'nohidden' is awful if you try to use buffers without knowing about it, and I don't think I've ever met anyone who wasn't infuriated by 'backspace' defaulting to "".

I'm not so much a fan of the platform tweaks, since you can't expect each platform to make the same ones. If you learn on one and just assume those settings will be the same everywhere, it can be very annoying when you switch to another system only to discover that your .vimrc isn't getting you the same behavior. 'backspace' is a particularly egregious setting this happens for often I find. It would be better if all systems left backspace="", so that everyone knew to add it to their .vimrc's.
I'd recommend using as many real examples as possible. Things like forecasting, product recommendations, topic modeling, etc. While you can conceptually explain how Bayesian statistics is a unified recipe, it's incredibly hard to have this sink in with toy problems. This is especially true since many people using traditional tools are actually using advanced methods to solve real problems, so when they start reading about urns or doors it all comes across as rather academic. That's sad because the benefit of Bayesian coherency is mostly that it leads to a highly productive mode of practical data analysis.

Definitely shoot me an email at tristan@senseplatform.com if you're interested in the computational side of this area. At Sense (http://www.senseplatform.com), we're working on making applied Bayesian analysis as amazing as it should be.
Just in case you didn't see, they responded that this was not a hard requirement.
MISC might be of relevance here:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2887

EDIT: And for the record, I actually think it's a brilliant idea.
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This is not correct: there are things that can be faster than C because of the compilation aspect (the compiler can only optimize with the information it has, some of them can only be known at runtime).

A good example is iteration over non trivial, multi-dimensional structures: if you iterate over a single dimension, then some variables become actual constant, but this can only be known once you know the iterator parameters (i.e. even profile-guided optimization would not work).

You could obviously implement a runtime-based optimizer in C, but then the assertion that you can never beat C is a tautology.
You mean Apple too. :] They've licensed ActiveSync for iOS since 1.0 I believe.
It would be pretty shitty if they said you can work on your own projects and then demanded that they own the work you do. They definitely should clarify this on the site though....
Pathogen just uses a directory tree. Some users decide to use git submodules in it.
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I just got a 503 error message.

"Service Temporarily Unavailable

"The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."
Download Chrome. Make Mozilla as fast as Chrome.
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"The resulting database is highly programmable, and can serve as infrastructure for editors, IDEs, code browsing, analysis and documentation tools."

The mere mention of editors and IDEs suggests to me that they envision analysis as the gateway drug.
> I'm only objecting to the idea of a periodic repartition -- it seems inefficient, and according to the linked article, it takes the table out of service for as much as 15 minutes, apparently on a daily basis. To me this sounds hacky and ad-hoc.

The article was stating that by using pg_reorg to partition, the table will NOT be out of service for 15 minutes
You can update your bundles straight from the command line with:

vim +BundleInstall! +qall

Vim still opens but could be useful if you're trying to automate vim somehow.
I hate this trailer too, but I bet some of that is because it makes my illusion of individuality shrink.
Mobile version of IE10 won’t run Flash by default
Cached link since my poor server is dead: http://blog.rabidgremlin.com.nyud.net/2012/10/11/did-microsoft-just-kill-flash-ie10-wont-run-flash-unless-your-site-is-on-a-microsoft-whitelist/
...and the FSF is a crowdfunding platform for free software projects. That could be an interesting development.
When is Stripe coming to Liechtenstein? Really, what's the hold up?
Basic Git Prettification in Linux
I think this still depends on the distribution. Fedora, for example, still contains a freetype version with the hinting patch disabled. You need to install freetype-freeworld from a third party repository to enable it.

You're right, though. The patents expired in May 2010.

[Edit]
Source: http://www.freetype.org/patents.html
Thanks for the reference. I have just activated "verified by visa" feature on my primary card, but it appears to be a nonsense again:

"After you activate Verified by Visa, your card will be recognized when you buy at participating online stores. You'll enter your password in the Verified by Visa window, your identity will be verified, and the transaction will be completed. In stores that are not yet participating in Verified by Visa, your Visa card will continue to work as usual."

basically, everyone still has the power to charge me, when it knows my card number. The feature seems to be protecting merchants, not customers (yes, I understand that my bank will likely refund all stolen funds, but I would prefer a sane solution)
Indeed, a JIT compiler will always be able to take advantage of something that isn't possible for something that is compiled once and set in stone.

However, that's not to say that upfront compilation is doomed never to compete.

Profiling C compilers can mimic this behaviour to an extent, although they can only profile for the situtations they experience during their training phase so they can't adapt to unforeseen scenarios or dramatic shifts in the input stream.

C compilers could be extended to implement several/many variants of each function based on different possible code paths and, using information gained from on the fly timings it could switch between different variants in order to optimise execution. Combinatorics would place a low limit on the number of percentage of possible variants implemented though.

Finally, no-one ever said that C has to be a compiled language. There's nothing stopping someone writing a JIT C interpreter and getting the best of both worlds. (Ugh!)
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Sure, it's possible but not convenient. Obviously phone carries do not want you to do this and are going to do anything they can to lock you into plans. Their current fear is being a 'dumb pipe' for wireless internet. This next level we're talking about basically makes them obsolete once wifi his a certain saturation.
This can be changed on OS X with a

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int [value]

I personally use a value of 1. There's an entire article on this at http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/18/change-font-smoothing-setting...
When I see colloquialisms used in technical discussions I generally assume that the author is attempting to convey the topic of conversation in a more casual and approachable way so as to maximize the amount of of people who read and think about what is being said. You may not be aware of this but pretentiousness does turn a lot of people off. This stops said people from inquiring further about things they may actually discover they care about. The downside of all this pretentiousness is that the world is as a whole less educated because the people who possess the knowledge and know-how refuse to accommodate their audiences with simple word changes such as this.
This is almost purely a matter of what software you're running. Just about any server can handle HN traffic if it's serving static content using a event-based server like nginx.

Oh the other end, if you have a dynamic web site that's doing heavy DB queries on every request, even a relatively small rate of requests can bring you down.

A basic scaling strategy is pretty straight forward. 1) Any content that can be static should be, and most content can be static. For example you can make Wordpress serve posts as static files using plugins. 2) Any dynamic content should rely heavily on caching (DB queries in memcached and HTML content in Varnish, for example).
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Yes, it is a well-known issue with Linux and Windows :-)

Seriously, you have to pick one: you either deform letter shapes so that they fit the grid better, with the disadvantage that your line breaks change and/or your letter and/or word spacing look awful, or you ignore the grid until the last moment, compute what percentage of each pixel is covered by each 'infinite resolution' graphene, and color them gray accordingly, with the disadvantage that text looks a bit more blurry.

(technically, there is a third way: layout each character of each font at some set of fixed point sizes by hand, so that it fits the grid perfectly. The original Mac used that method; it became infeasible when the LaserWriter shipped)
This is a game changer to me. Everyone has always been really gungho on systems to get paid, but there is relatively little activity around paying people or facilitating others getting paid. Really only Paypal, Wepay, and Poundpay/Balanced are in this space so it's much wider open to better players than the getting paid side of things.
You should set a pricepoint, $25-75 that includes instructions, bill of materials, as well as a CAD file (I know it's a pretty simple mechanism, but some will appreciate it).
Do you think that I am self aware?

Can you predict where I am going with this line of questioning?
Im a developer at a small startup, I work from home, in Portland, OR.
Parallel computing is limited by Amdalah's Law. Having more core does not mean you can have have more speed because it's not easy to use all those cores. Most imperial languages are not designed with running codes on multiple core and few programers are taught how to design their algorithm for using a handful of cores.

I can see this platform being a good tool for students and researchers to experiment with algorithm speedups by making their sequential code, parallel.

In my parallel programming class, our teacher had to rig together a computer lab to connect the 12 quad core computers to simulate a 64 core cluster. Then again, 64 core cluster of Parallella would cost like $7000. You can get the same 64 core setup by buying 8 x 8 core consumer desktop computer for under $3000, which will still be more cost effective and probably have ten times more computing power because of the x86 architecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahls_law
Was Chuck Testa and Nyan Cat really last year? Jeez.
currently it's a refer link that gives you an extra card for free if your invite a friend
Cool. Developer interaction always sounds good to me, so, signed myself up. Let's see what happens.
Thanks for posting a very valid concern! Does the following FFT based image processing demo address the concern about communication bottlenecks in the approach?

http://www.adapteva.com/white-papers/using-a-scalable-parall...

Corner turns for 2D FFTs are usually quite challenging for GPUs and CPUs.[ref] Yaniv, our DSP guru, completed the corner turn part of the algorithm with ease in a couple of days and the on chip data movement constitutes a very small portion of the total application wall time.(complete with source code published as well if you really want to dig).

It's hard to market FFT cycle counts to the general audience:-)
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Everything looks "obvious" or "not really that important" when you're looking UP the power curve.

I am not a programmer, I solve problems using symbolic representations. Anything that lets me reason about solving this problems at a higher level is a net gain for me. I've been wishing for something like this for the last 13 years. This is fantastic in my mind, I want people to run like hell with it.
...and maybe a $150'ish for plans and hardware kit. Seems like the harder part of this would be the mechanical hardware. Shipping something the size of a bed assembled from 2x4s is going to be expensive, sourcing the lumber locally should make it pretty easy.
Poster is a spambot for neowin; this should be the actual link.
Occam's Razor is more of an idiom or principal than a law.
Thanks for spf13 -- I use it every day, on Mac and Linux, with Python.

I do have one persistent, annoying problem with it, though, since I've got you here -- inserting close braces/parens OFTEN doesn't work with whatever plugin you use for the auto-closing. How do I turn it off? I remember trying to get rid of it, and failing miserably.
Just an FYI -- this killed my Virtual Box install the last time i tried it. Uninstalling HAXM fixed it all, but having Virtual Box was more important than the Intel images, so I left it uninstalled.
didn't notice it was missing the http

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17429786
The counter argument is that if you've compiled into a semantic description (bytecodes for a virtual machine) then the underlying VM implementation can optimize a semantically correct pipeline based on features available to it. Thus programmer time is saved (they wrote their code once) at the expense of a higher burden on the VM to do the right thing.

This argument (that the VM new best) was put forward by Bill Joy early on in the development of Java as the reason Java would eventually be faster than compiled C code. We discovered that in practice 'friction' [1] between hot spot compilation and instruction set architectures nearly always dominated this equation (leaving Java code slower).

Architectures where the friction was reduced (like the Jazelle instruction set on ARM) could swing the balance the other way.

[1] Friction in this case is the cost to performance of the difference of expressibility between a byte coded instruction and the actual processor architecture.
Interesting. I can't really tell how fast Chrome starts up, because it's starts in the background when my desktop environment loads and I'm on an SSD. But that would in fact be a good indicator for bloat.
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Means it's more than three times what you were thinking would be affordable. Also, they don't want your business. They want a design consultant's businesss, so the price can be a small part of a huge contract.
I imagine that the less concrete requirements on the UX make it more difficult to negotiate design decisions via pull requests. Typically OSS code contributions don't include design changes (e.g moving proven core components from shared state to a message queue for aesthetics), but bug fixes or very concrete feature additions which are easy to reduce to tests.
Awesome! In my opinion a killer feature would be to add sharing/embedding support.
The main stats they're reporting on are how many times the link was shared via embed.ly, and how many times it was viewed within the context of an Embedly-embedded video player (i.e. not directly viewed on YouTube).

It wouldn't surprise me if that selection bias is skewing the results when it comes to the lack of a boost from Ellen / SNL / The Today Show. Those appearances came late in the trend of the meme, and so it's logical to assume that anybody who learned about Gangnam Style from TV appearances isn't particularly meme- or net-savvy. Those aren't the sort of people who are likely to share the link to the Youtube video using embed.ly. They'll either tell their friends in person, or perhaps send them a direct YouTube link.

Also, since they're learning about the video from TV instead of from, say, an Embedly-powered blog post about it, I'd also assume they're more likely to view the video directly on YouTube rather than someone's posted Embedly copy. If you search on Google for 'Gangnam Style', the official YouTube link is the first result. If you check Google Trends (http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=gangnam%20style&d...), you'll notice an uptick in search traffic in the middle of September, a timeframe which includes all three of those TV appearances (the 10th, 14th, and 15th) but isn't represented in Embedly's stats.

This is admittedly all hearsay, but it wouldn't surprise me if Psy's TV appearances did actually result in a tangible bump in popularity.
There's nothing pretentious about the word "failure."

I do not believe the people who plod through a huge multi-page, multi-code-sample question at StackOverflow are just casual dabblers who are likely to leap away from the discussion when they discover the top-rated answer features the word "failure."
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I can't help but wonder: Societies in the past would not put such a decision on the hands of non-experts, perhaps because there were too many uninformed citizens. Have we advanced to the point where the general public (or even the slightly more educated part that is likely to crowdfund stuff) is qualified to make decisions by committee that are right/good?
I recommend picking up one of these on eBay: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...

I "know a guy" who will recharge it for you.
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